[Gray Beard]

(06-09-2014 05:03 PM)Hotwheels Wrote:  

Frank Lloyd Wright's handwriting (cursive) is pretty much crap so I dunno about the creativity thing. Or am I missing something?



As for myself, I barely pick up a pen for anything anymore so writing anything may be a challenge. lolzzz

Seriously, I do agree that I am much more creative when writing versus typing something out here. In the past I would actually write things out then type it into the puter.

Apropos Frank Lloyd Wright, when I was a child, doctors' prescriptions were always written in long hand. Most doctors' handwriting was almost impossible to read, but somehow pharmacists understood it (perhaps because there was a limited "vocabulary" they needed to consider, just distinguishing between few possibilities). I doubt, however, that doctors were lacking creative abilities. The issue, per the original OP cited article, is not about clear or beautiful handwriting but rather about activating your brain more fully, starting as a child, by learning how to write by hand. As a by-product, learning how to read others' handwriting probably helps too.

[Dulceácido]

I wish I had better handwriting. I was not a very good student in grade school and had really shitty teachers. I did not learn to write well. Never learned my multiplication tables, either. But, later in life, I crushed physics and wrote essays that went on to be published. All those dumb little girls with the beautiful cursive could barely survive a graduate level course.

The fortunate thing is I can practice and train myself in handwriting and did so later on in life--mostly out of boredom on military deployments when we had no internet. My handwriting is still shyte, but it's actually respectable when I'm writing something I know others will read/see. When I'm writing things to myself, all bets are off. It's scribbles.